Newly arrived from Moloko PLus is the Kiev Stingl CD ‘X R I Nuit’. Moloko’s CD was published as a companion to the EP of the same name that was released by Klangbad in 2022. On their website Klangbad announces this trove of Kiev Stingl recordings from 1982 as follows: … Never-before-heard songs from Germany’s underground legend Kiev Stingl. Released on Klangbad, record label…
Flacker in der Pfote is Kiev Stingl’s first book, originally published by the Bavarian Pohl’n’Mayer press in 1979. Now edited and re-published by Moloko Plus from Schönebeck, Stingl’s poetry compilation looks and reads as vital, violent and unflinching as it was in 1979. Like much of Stingl’s lyrics, the poems form an exploration of the deeper layers of existence…
Artist, writer, curator, theorist, and activist Jean-Jacques Lebel (Paris, 1936) has been a spearhead of the avant-garde since the 1950s. Lebel formed an early link between the European avant-garde and the American Beat Generation, introduced Happenings to Europe, was one of the creative minds behind the May 68 revolt, organised the Festival de la libre Expression (which evolved into the Polyphonix festivals), provided first French translations of works by Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs and has curated large exhibitions on Francis Picabia, Antonin Artaud…